A random collection of over 1910 books and audiobooks authored by or about my transgender, intersex sisters, and gender-nonconforming persons all over the world. I read some of them, and I was inspired by some of them. I met some of the authors and heroines, some of them are my best friends, and I had the pleasure and honor of interviewing some of them. If you know of any transgender biography that I have not covered yet, please let me know.
Original title: "Újjászületők: nemváltoztató élettörténetek" (Born again: Gender reassignment life stories) by Ferenc Vidra Szabó and Gábor Hero.The book follows the stages of gender reassignment and contains a couple of life stories based on interviews conducted by Ferenc Vidra Szabó. The essence of these subjective stories, the psychological, medical and social summation of the topic processed in the chapter is outlined in the short introductions written by Gábor Hero, who leads the chapters. At the end of the volume, we can also read a compilation about the legal framework of gender reassi
2021,
Ferenc Vidra Szabó,
Gábor Hero,
Hungarian,
Original title: "Inkognitó" (Incognito) by Tibor Noé Kiss.Tibor/Noémi has visited the women's section of a shoe store for the first time. Another customer groaned and called her names, the salesperson complimented the choice of boots and smiled. Tibor/Noémi tried to smile too. That was four weeks ago. Today she would go out into town in boots. But now she sits alone in an armchair with her body, and each hates the other.Incognito is an impressive depiction of how a football-loving youth finds a stranger in herself and her body. It is a coming-of-age story, a coming-of-the-closet story, and a
2010,
Hungarian,
Tibor Noé Kiss,
Original title: "Saját ketrec" (My Cage) by Blanka Vay.Blanka Vay had to answer one short, undecided question before Christmas 2015, but her whole life depended on it. More precisely, two lives. One previous and one new. The answer, however, swept away the old one like a flood. My Cage is the story of this answer to why a thirty-six-year-old married man decides to give up his comfortable, privileged social status and identify as a woman and choose himself and life instead.And at the same time, this book tells us a lot about things: women, men, masculine women and feminine men, family, real fr
2021,
Blanka Vay,
Hungarian,
Original title: "A lélek műtétei" (Surgeries of the soul) by Judit Takács.Our book was produced as part of the research entitled Transsexuals in the Health and Social Care System within the framework of the Social Inclusion - 2003 program. This was the first descriptive research on transsexual people in Hungary, using social science approaches, which sought to provide a comprehensive picture of the social treatment of the phenomenon of transsexuality by exploring the official and health options for gender reassignment.The target group of transsexuals in our study was people who entered or int
2006,
Hungarian,
Judit Takács,
Original title: "Holnaptól nő leszek" (I'll be a woman from tomorrow)'I was born with a male look, but I lived with a female soul. I got married and had a wife and two kids. I tried to raise my daughter and son as a father, but I still approached them as a woman.Bea's diary from Gyula, a town in Békés County, Hungary, is a poignant account of the year and a half it took her to realize who she really was. She was determined to undergo operations to change her gender, get rid of her masculinity, and become physically female.The author leads us step by step on this strange path, and we can find
2002,
Bea Kútvölgyi,
Hungarian,
"A dán lány" is the Hungarian language edition of The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff.Having gender reassignment surgery in the 1930s was an unusual and sensational affair, and the man who took the step to do so was the Danish painter Einar Mogens Andreas Wegener, who after the operation took the name of Lili Elbe.The operation took place at the Institute for Sexology in Berlin, where the male organs were removed. The surgery was performed by Felix Abraham at the recommendation of Magnus Hirschfeld.Einar Wegener was married to the beautiful, celebrated artist Gerda Wegener. They lived in a hig
2012,
David Ebershoff,
Hungarian,
Lili Elbe,
